Practice Description: My compassionate support of pregnant women is based in three years of Obstetrics seminars with the Ob-Gyn residents at Drexel University College of Medicine; in addition, to completing training in Maternal Fetal Medicine delivering difficult news to pregnant women about their anomalous pregnancies. I also have extensive experience addressing psychological symptoms during the antenatal period, postpartum, and after pregnancy loss. I am RTS certified to compassionately support bereavement after pregnancy loss when resolving the highly sensitive emotions resulting from the experience of miscarriage, stillbirth, or neonatal death. I will be happy to set up a FREE initial phone consultation to answer your questions and determine if we are a therapeutic match. Together we can determine if I can assist you with your goals. Please call 650.619.9942 today for your FREE initial phone consultation. Additional Comments: Patrice is a seasoned Masters level clinician with 22 years of community, volunteer, educational, and professional experience combined. As well, her extensive practice as a psychotherapist includes ten years of intensive supervised client counseling with over 5,000 hours of supervised, post Masters, direct client contact hours. The aforementioned settings include outpatient facilities, physicians’ offices, and hospitals in addition to providing support within the community. She also has experience in hospital settings within pediatric bone marrow transplant, pediatric burn and plastics, neonatal intensive care, and hospice. Additionally, Patrice Fortune has worked within an inner city University Student Counseling Center providing comprehensive mental health services to undergraduate and graduate students, along with medical students and residents. Patrice has worked within culturally diverse medical and mental health settings during which time she worked extensively in chronically and critically challenged situations experiencing a rich variety of therapeutic circumstance. Patrice therefore seeks to optimize service of responsible compassion and sensitivity of diverse populations. As she works directly with the most challenging of populations in an upbeat positive manner despite the consequences of prognosis, Patrice nurtures dignity for others regardless of the required level of intervention. BACKGROUND & EXPERIENCE Furthermore, Patrice participated in three years of Obstetrics and Maternal Fetal Medicine seminars with the residents at Drexel University College of Medicine and completed a clerkship in Maternal Fetal Medicine delivering difficult news to patients about their anomalous pregnancies. Presently Patrice Fortune is completing a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, focusing in health psychology and obstetrics. Further, she has completed extensive self-initiated learning experiences in the area of women’s mental health and obstetrics related care. Patrice’s education and experience range from the fetal stages during pregnancy, premature infants through childhood, adolescence, and adulthood with individuals, couples, and families. THERAPEUIC MODALITIES FAMILY CRISIS PREGNANCY The aforesaid expertise is evidence of her capacity to appropriately respond to the sensitive emotions that arise in a variety of critical experiences during the antenatal and postnatal process on an individual, couple, parent/child, and family basis. Further, Patrice has multi-specialty expertise working with women to address the complex interplay of perinatal care, substance abuse, and psychiatric dysfunction. Combining her understanding and expertise regarding the complex interaction of optimal healthcare, perinatal substance abuse, and psychiatric problems, she has written about perinatal substance abuse, maternal fetal outcomes, and chemical dependency intervention. SUBSTANCE ABUSE CRISIS SUPPORT LEGAL SYSTEM
Emotional Support for Women's Health:
With experience in health psychology I specializes in helping women with health issues. I provide emotional support and assist in creating healthier coping styles to help women move forward in their lives in positive and more satisfying ways.
As a reproductive health specialist, I respond with the utmost compassion to the sensitive emotions that arise in a variety of critical experiences during pregnancy, infertility, and the postnatal process. Further, I work closely with women to address the complex interplay of fluctuating emotions and psychological symptoms. My specialty ranges from conception, the fetal stages during pregnancy, premature infants through childhood, adolescence, and adulthood with individuals, couples, and families. I am also trained to assist with the grief associated with pregnancy loss and infant loss.
Working reciprocally with you, we will develop highly actionable, individual-specific plans that transform your life. I will assist you in empowering you to get the life you want by clarifying your values and creating your unique vision of success and happiness. The care you receive will be uniquely balanced to enhance personal growth while at the same time affording opportunities to nurture meaningful connections. I also specialize in stress reduction, assisting you in developing inner-calmness, self-awareness, and self-acceptance achieved through a harmonious relationship between your emotions, thoughts, and actions thereby increasing greater sense of balance, creativity, personal growth and professional success.
With her education and experience out of state – as a fourth generation native of the San Francisco Bay Area – Patrice Fortune returned to California post two Masters. She successfully completed a Bachelor of Science in psychology with a minor in philosophy at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, a Masters of Art in art therapy at Marylhurst University in Portland, OR with a focus in health psychology, and a Masters of Science in clinical psychology with a concentration in health psychology, a focus in women’s health, and specialty in obstetrics related care at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA.
Patrice has experience providing a variety of therapeutic modalities, clinical interventions, assessments, and evaluations, in addition to health psychology approaches. They include the following though are not limited to crisis intervention, brief solution focused therapy, cognitive behavioral approaches, behavioral nutrition, mind/body approach, stress and coping interventions, and mindfulness. Patrice also has experience implementing a variety of creative arts modalities, play therapy, and photo therapy. The aforementioned also entailed administering psychological assessment, family assessment, clinical interview, facilitating parenting classes, and conducting evaluation, diagnosis, and recommending appropriate level of placement.
Patrice worked extensively with children in transitional living situations experiencing a wide variety of family circumstance. In addition, she worked closely with social service guardians for children in the foster care and adoption processes. The aforementioned included though was not limited to therapeutic supervised visitation, kinship care, foster care, and the entirety of the adoption process. As a result, her expertise also encompasses the capacity to appropriately respond to the multicultural sensitive parent/child interactions that arise through the endless combinations of family dynamics.
Working closely with families has given her the opportunity to learn more about and provide clinical psychological treatment to pregnant women within a family context, mother/child attachment, the affects of pregnancy loss on subsequent mother/child interaction, as well as the psychological symptoms that potentially arise during pregnancy. Patrice also has extensive experience addressing psychological symptoms during the antenatal period, postpartum, as well as after pregnancy loss. She is also RTS certified in bereavement post pregnancy loss and neonatal death, in addition to being RTS certified as a coordinator to develop programs within hospitals and clinics to address the aforementioned complications.
Utilizing motivational interviewing, stages of change theory, prevention / relapse prevention, psychoeducation, and cognitive behavioral therapies Patrice has provided chemical dependency evaluation, diagnosis, and intervention within University student counseling, acute duel diagnosis, and outpatient treatment settings to individuals and families. In addition, she presented multiple seminars and trainings to groups of 10 to 30 duel diagnosis acute patients on topics of drug and alcohol relapse prevention, conducted chemical dependency evaluations, diagnosed and referred to the appropriate level of treatment once released from acute care.
Crisis counseling with multi-specialty expertise working with individuals experiencing acute and chronic episodes of crisis to address the complex interplay of grief and loss, substance abuse, psychiatric problems, and behavioral dysfunction are areas of patient care where Patrice excels. Her experience also includes working within acute and outpatient settings with individuals at risk for suicide; as well, she has the capacity to appropriately respond with multicultural sensitivity during critical times of crisis. In addition, she has experience responding onsite within the community with police to address acute psychiatrically based behavioral conflict, psychotic episodes, and suicidal attempts.
Patrice Fortune’s experience also includes working with youth within the juvenile justice system exhibiting severe conduct problems, awaiting adjudication, on house arrest, and probation. Given her wide variety of clinical experience she has multi-specialty expertise working with individuals, couples, families, and children to address the complex interplay of family relationships, substance abuse, psychiatric problems, and behavioral dysfunction.
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